Virtual Web Hosting Services

Daniel,

We strongly support Peter Galbavy's position on web hosting services and
that using a single ip address is not bad!

The Internet's growth and success have made it crucial for any good sized
company to have a presence on the Web.

The alternatives are usually to install a leased line, router and web server
which would usually take up a much larger subnet or even a full class C
address or to use a web hosting service of some sort that uses only a single
ip address for an entire company. 

This is clearly much more efficient that each Web site using a larger
address space assignment and thereby placing greater strain on the
diminishing address pool.

Large companies have lots of budget and if they can't get the lower cost
shared web server solution, they will opt for the higher solution.

Our experience is that they will not tolerate the www.provider.xx/~yourco
sort of addressing convention.  Great, however for individuals.

Birds of a feather like to fly together.  Most of the big birds have their
own www.yourco.xx registations and now the smaller ones now want the same
sort of presentation.

The designers of http should perhaps have thought this out or get thinking
about a solution.  In the meantime the rest of us have to find a way to make
it work the most efficiently.

Regards

David Guthrie, Technocom plc, U.K.